Greetings,
I am writing this with the intention of reopening a real dialog between the true members of this community and the developers’ team.
Why ?
I have seen many times that whenever one of the developers tried to inform or get involved in a discussion about something, the respective topic will have inevitably ended in flames. Not really normal, and definitely not constructive, in my opinion. LFS surely was, and still is for some of us, THE racing simulator; it would be a pity to just disappear like any other game that you play once and then you forget where you store it, or that you even had it.
Moreover, the dev team, doesn’t deserve this treatment, they have put their passion and skills in creating LFS, the sim you have enjoyed (and maybe still do) for a fair price tag to say the least.
What will be different this time ?
With the help of moderators, I would suggest to lock this topic right from the beginning, so only the “officials” will have the right to post here. The aim would be to have a clean topic, with as many answers as possible to questions of general interest. BUT without any pressure on the dev team, no matter what the answer would be.
How will it work ?
I’ve created a “Questions Basket”, where any member can post any question regarding LFS, its past/current/future state. No other “spam”, just one post, one question (any post not containing a question should be deleted). From time to time (hopefully), we will get some fair and honest answers in present topic.
Ground rules
Just to eliminate any “by default” frustration, I would also propose few ground rules, to take into account before getting involved:
• we should start with the idea that today, the dev team doesn’t OWE us anything. They have created (with very hard work, we can be sure) an outstanding product, and we definitely got what we have paid for.
• anything related to S3 (physics & content) is an opportunity, and not a signed contract. Therefore, we can and hopefully will talk about it, but cannot ask for it, as if we had already purchased it.
• no timeline & no pressure – the developers will answer when & if they see fit to do so, at any question, in no particular order.
• This topic is not meant for those planning to moan about: slow LFS development, how LFS forum & project are “dead”, how the devs’ are cruel and heartless beeings, how the Scirocco is a lie, … or any other judgements of this kind; you have of course the right to your opinion, and you have of course so many other threads where you can/you have already expressed the above feelings. Thank you in advance for not spam-ing the current one.
What it takes to work:
Of course, involvement of dev team
Involvement of moderators
Involvement of the community
Decency & polite tone from all of the above, no matter what
Hoping to see a fructuous & open dialog.
Cheers,
Luchian
NOTA: With the help of moderators would be nice to gather here some of the existing dev’ posts that already answer a part of the questions. I will try to do it myself, whenever I’ll come across them.
I am writing this with the intention of reopening a real dialog between the true members of this community and the developers’ team.
Why ?
I have seen many times that whenever one of the developers tried to inform or get involved in a discussion about something, the respective topic will have inevitably ended in flames. Not really normal, and definitely not constructive, in my opinion. LFS surely was, and still is for some of us, THE racing simulator; it would be a pity to just disappear like any other game that you play once and then you forget where you store it, or that you even had it.
Moreover, the dev team, doesn’t deserve this treatment, they have put their passion and skills in creating LFS, the sim you have enjoyed (and maybe still do) for a fair price tag to say the least.
What will be different this time ?
With the help of moderators, I would suggest to lock this topic right from the beginning, so only the “officials” will have the right to post here. The aim would be to have a clean topic, with as many answers as possible to questions of general interest. BUT without any pressure on the dev team, no matter what the answer would be.
How will it work ?
I’ve created a “Questions Basket”, where any member can post any question regarding LFS, its past/current/future state. No other “spam”, just one post, one question (any post not containing a question should be deleted). From time to time (hopefully), we will get some fair and honest answers in present topic.
Ground rules
Just to eliminate any “by default” frustration, I would also propose few ground rules, to take into account before getting involved:
• we should start with the idea that today, the dev team doesn’t OWE us anything. They have created (with very hard work, we can be sure) an outstanding product, and we definitely got what we have paid for.
• anything related to S3 (physics & content) is an opportunity, and not a signed contract. Therefore, we can and hopefully will talk about it, but cannot ask for it, as if we had already purchased it.
• no timeline & no pressure – the developers will answer when & if they see fit to do so, at any question, in no particular order.
• This topic is not meant for those planning to moan about: slow LFS development, how LFS forum & project are “dead”, how the devs’ are cruel and heartless beeings, how the Scirocco is a lie, … or any other judgements of this kind; you have of course the right to your opinion, and you have of course so many other threads where you can/you have already expressed the above feelings. Thank you in advance for not spam-ing the current one.
What it takes to work:
Of course, involvement of dev team
Involvement of moderators
Involvement of the community
Decency & polite tone from all of the above, no matter what
Hoping to see a fructuous & open dialog.
Cheers,
Luchian
NOTA: With the help of moderators would be nice to gather here some of the existing dev’ posts that already answer a part of the questions. I will try to do it myself, whenever I’ll come across them.